Genshin Impact all six Foggy Forest Branch locations – The Wild Fairy of Erinnyes Sequel

An unmarked quest that comes with a hidden achievement, easily overlooked in Genshin Impact.


This secret unmarked quest is a sequel to The Wild Fairy of Erinnyes main world quest of Genshin Impact Fontaine 4.2. You will not get this quest until you complete The Wild Fairy of Erinnyes.

In this secret quest, you must return to Loch Urania (a location you must be familiar with if you’ve completed the pre-required quest) and speak with Pahsiv. Speaking with Pahsiv will initiate the quest.

Quest Initiation

Loch Urania secret cave entrance marked on the map using a pin.
Loch Urania secret cave entrance.

To complete this quest, you must bring six Foggy Forest Branches to Pahsiv.

When you return them to Pahsiv, you will get primogems as rewards and a hidden achievement (more on it below).

All the branches can be obtained by completing various puzzles. The puzzles are not that complicated and take a few minutes. If you still have doubts about any puzzles, this guide will clear it all for you.

Foggy Forest Branch 1

The first branch is near the teleport waypoint directly north of the Marcotte Station Statue of The Seven.

Foggy Forest Branch 1 location on the map.

When you teleport to the waypoint, you will notice a small steep mountain directly in front of you.

You will find a time trial challenge at the top of the mountain.

You must complete the time trial to get your first branch. You need to collect 10 hydro particles in 45 seconds to beat this challenge.

Just like any other challenges in Genshin Impact, it is a linear path challenge and will only take a few seconds to complete.

An exquisite chest will spawn once you’ve collected all the hydro particles within the given time.

Open the chest to get your usual loot and the Foggy Forest Branch.

Foggy Forest Branch 2

You can grab the second branch by solving a puzzle near a little water body situated between the Marcotte Station’s Statue of The Seven and the Loch Urania teleport waypoint.

Second Foggy Forest Branch puzzle location on the map.
The hydro core puzzle.

Pick up the small hydro particle, and enter the water to get the wet status on your character.

Hydro particle.

Wait for a couple of seconds and the hydro particle will grow due to the wet status.

Walking in water to get the wet status on the active character.

Once the hydro particle is fully grown, it becomes a hydro core.

You will see a hydro field around your character. Anything that comes within the radius of this hydro core will get wet.

Install the hydro core in small hydro core holder above the boulder.

Installing the hydro core in this holder will hold it in place with a fixed radius.

Hit the blue mechanism to activate it (it will turn orange) and make the hydro urns move in an anti-clockwise direction.

The hydro urns will pass through both the water body below and the hydro core field above.

Turn off the mechanism when all four hydro urns are wet, making contact with both the hydro core field and the water underneath.

Correct arrangement.

When they’re all wet, a precious chest with the branch will spawn.

Precious chest with the Foggy Forest Branch.

Foggy Forest Branch 3

The third branch can be acquired by purifying the pond east of the Weeping Willow of the Lake.

Location of the contaminated water on the map.

When you get to the pond, you will notice that is contaminated.

You need to cleanse it by destroying the floating green tumor around it.

First, grab the Xenochromatic Ball Octopus’ power from the small altar near the pond.

Altar with the Xenochromatic Ball Octopus power.

Once you get the ability, use it on the smaller tumor first to destroy the shield on the larger tumor.

Finally, destroy the larger tumor to cleanse the water body.
Cleansed pond.

Once cleaned, dive underwater and enter the teleporter.

Underwater teleporter.

It will take you to a secret underground base with an exquisite chest containing the Foggy Forest Branch.

Chest with the third branch.

You can exit this underground base using the wooden ladder as you proceed to the right.

The ladder connects to a dried up well.
The well opening at the top.

Foggy Forest Branch 4

This branch is inside a small pond located in between the Foggy Forest Path and the Weeping Willow of the Lake.

Take the teleport waypoint in the middle of the two to spawn directly in front of the pond.

You will find a large seashell.

The large seashell by the water body.
Hit it a couple of times to open it and pick up the Ousia block.

Dive underwater and destroy the Pneuma-aligned altar.

Pneuma-aligned altar.

Once you destroy it, an exquisite chest with the fourth Foggy Forest Branch will spawn.

Exquisite chest with the fourth branch.

Foggy Forest Branch 5

The fifth branch is in an area only accessible through a teleporter which is located underwater in a small pond southeast of the Weeping Willow of the Lake.

Exact location of the small pond on the map.

You will find a purple glowing ball next to the small altar containing the Xenochromatic Ball Octopus power.

Purple ball, the field (in the distance), and the Xenochromatic Ball Octopus power altar.

Hold the skill button while aiming at the ball until it charges it.

Release the skill once the ball starts shaking.

You need to direct it inside a purple field next to the small pond to access the teleporter underwater.

Once the ball hits the field, the field is gone forever.

Go through the teleporter and you will end up somewhere under the sea.

Underwater teleporter.

When you go through the portal, you will teleport somewhere south inside a wrecked ship.

Wrecked ship location on the map.

You will find two chests here (exquisite and precious).

The branch is inside the precious chest.

The only way to exit this area is by returning through the portal you entered from or teleporting to any of the waypoints on the map.

Foggy Forest Branch 6

For the last branch, you need to open a chest locked behind a vault door of a wrecked ship.

The wrecked ship is near the teleport waypoint located directly north of Lumidouce Harbor.
The locked door.

You need to find three vault keys to unlock this door.

Luckily, all three keys are in close vicinity.

Vault Key 1

While facing the locked vault door, go to the wreckage to the southeast.

Southeast wreckage.

You will find a conch with a glow on it.

Go near the conch, and you will get an option to dig.

A small box will appear.

Investigate the box to get your first key.

Vault Key 2

Go on top of the wrecked ship with the vault door and you will find a locked common chest with a bunch of treasure hoarders on the wooden platform to your left.

Locked common chest with the second Simple Vault Key.
Treasure hoarders on the wooden platform.

Eliminate them all to unlock the chest and get your second key.

Acquiring the second key.

Vault Key 3

Climb the top of the wrecked ship and you will find a bird’s nest.

Investigate the nest to get your third key.

Now, you can return to the vault door and use the three “Simple Vault Keys” to unlock the door and get your final Foggy Forest Branch.

It also has a hydroculus for you to collect inside.

Returning the Branches

Return to Pahsiv and interact with her to give her the Foggy Forest Branches and complete this quest.

Giving all six Foggy Forest Branches to Pahsiv.

Secret Achievement

Pahsiv also sells you some items from her shop. If you select the dialogue option “We brought some Tidalga,” you can purchase items from her in exchange for Tidalga.

Tidalga is a Fontaine-exclusive underwater resource found while diving.

If you purchase everything from Pahsiv and clear her stock, you get a secret achievement called “Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow.”

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow Achievement.
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